The average hospitalisation was nearly 20 days, causing a significant financial burden on the TB patients and delayed opportunity to receive the standardised treatment in the DOTS facilities (16, 17).
18– 20 Although most caretakers sought some type of care for their child's diarrheal illness, a substantial number did not choose a licensed health provider as their first point of contact, potentially delaying opportunities for optimal intervention.
Instead, the constant threat of FCC action is deterring valuable investments from the private sector and delaying opportunity for meaningful progress.
Children's years for learning fly by, and resources delayed are opportunities denied.
Tanzania, although it has invested in human resources development, found that low salaries, delayed promotion opportunities and poor working conditions led to dissatisfaction in the workforce.
It also delayed another opportunity for half of the Japanese position players in the major leagues to share the same field.
Tajikistan, for example, was "plunged in to a civil war from 1992 1994, which delayed the opportunity to rebuild our democracy and our economy", said Hamidiyon Mullo.
While this preserved ridesharing as an industry, it delayed the opportunity to connect ridesharing to existing transit networks.
Having served as a conferee in 2002, I appreciate the difficulty of developing an acceptable bill that fulfills divergent perspectives; however, the fierce partisanship delayed the opportunity to find the best policy solution.
I believe that older generations have failed these young people by reducing access to the arts in schools and, at best, delayed their opportunity to enjoy and benefit from arts participation.
